Celia, housewife, mother and wonderful cook, is celebrating her fortieth birthday. In her smart London home, her major worries are private schooling and the misplaced zeal of Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes. But the house of cards collapses around her, as friends and a sister turn edgy and fickle, a long-time admirer turns into a crude jester, and Celia spies her husband embracing a ghastly woman in a 'Come Dancing' frock.
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'A very funny book - one of those rare books that make you laugh out loud. Imagine the wicked social observation of Jilly Cooper mixed with the needle wit of Fay Weldon and you'll get the picture.' New Woman 'Cheek's writing is infused with terrific comic energy and she possesses the wickedly sharp eye of a born satirist.' Mail on Sunday
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Mavis Cheek's novels include Janice Gentle Gets Sexy, Aunt Margaret's Lover, Sleeping Beauties, Getting Back Brahms, Three Men on a Plane, Mrs Fytton's Country Life and The Sex Life of My Aunt.
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Written with a Fay Weldon sardonicism;dead on about marriage,
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If you love British tongue-in-cheek (so to speak) asperity and are a particular fan of Fay Weldon, you'll enjoy Cheek. Not as fantastical as Weldon, but certainly as drily funny and as percipient about man/woman relationships and the pitfalls of marriage, she is dead accurate about the inner workings of the sexual schemings of both men and women. She gets in some good bites at the nature of friendship as well and is no stranger to the mind of a child. Upliftingly cynical
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